📩 Yesterday we went to Number 10 with a special delivery for the Prime Minister. Andy Burnham is our first PM to openly support PR. We know he can talk the talk. Now it's time for him to walk the walk. @compassoffice.bsky.social @unlockdemocracy.bsky.social @jowusunepaul.bsky.social
Today MPs debated the Representation of the People Bill. Together with friends at @compassoffice.bsky.social and @unlockdemocracy.bsky.social, we brought 34 alarm clocks to Westminster to send them a loud message: it's time to wake up! ⏰ Our democracy is in crisis. We need fair votes now.
💥 “The Prime Minister remains committed to electoral reform” 💡 The Democracy Minister confirms that Government is seeking views and proposals to inform the next steps 🎯 As is clear from the debate in Parliament, that means a National Commission on Electoral Reform
🧵 1/13 🔦 What the Government won't tell you on climate. 🔒 It buried its own intelligence report on ecological breakdown 👉 bsky.app/profile/geor... 📈 Now it won't tell us how it sets carbon budgets that let emissions roll on ⚖️ So we are taking it to Court 👉 www.crowdjustice.com/case/carbon-...
Carbon Reckoning: Holding the Government to Its Own Climate Law
Carbon Reckoning are a science based group, committed to the strongest possible action to require the UK sets climate policy commensurate with the scale of the crisis we face.
crowdjustice.com
George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 8mo agoPlease spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Guess how much the minimum wage would be today if it kept up with worker productivity over the years?
🌐 Rio 1992: rich countries promised to prevent dangerous climate change 🥵 34 years on, dangerous CC is here. 🤔 UK sets its carbon budget for the "safe" world that no longer exists. We are going to Court to change that 👉 www.crowdjustice.com/case/carbon-... ♻️ See 🧵 👇 bsky.app/profile/dran...
#CarbonReckoning (Andrew Boswell)@drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 3w ago🧵 1/13 🔦 What the Government won't tell you on climate. 🔒 It buried its own intelligence report on ecological breakdown 👉 bsky.app/profile/geor... 📈 Now it won't tell us how it sets carbon budgets that let emissions roll on ⚖️ So we are taking it to Court 👉 www.crowdjustice.com/case/carbon-...
The federal minimum wage has been stuck at a paltry $7.25 an hour since 2009. Guess how much the wage would be today if it kept up with worker productivity over the years?
Two planned data centres will emit more carbon than the entire UK operations of ExxonMobil - and both plan to build their own gas power stations. Tell Andy Burnham to rule it out! www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/an...
Andy Burnham: no gas power stations for data centres
Two planned data centres will emit more carbon than the entire UK operations of ExxonMobil. Both plan to build their own gas power stations. Tell Andy Burnham to rule it out
foxglove.org.uk
“Burnham, a longtime advocate of electoral reform, will be asked to support the new commission into ditching First Past the Post in his first 100 days as Prime Minister. MPs have said the National Commission on Electoral Reform must report before the next election” #Labour4PR🌹
Labour MPs will push Burnham to back voting reform in first 100 days
Exclusive: Nearly 100 Labour MPs support commission on changing the system used for Westminster election
theguardian.com
Two planned data centres will emit more carbon than the entire UK operations of ExxonMobil - and both plan to build their own gas power stations. Tell Andy Burnham to rule it out! www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/an...
Andy Burnham: no gas power stations for data centres
Two planned data centres will emit more carbon than the entire UK operations of ExxonMobil. Both plan to build their own gas power stations. Tell Andy Burnham to rule it out
foxglove.org.uk
@werahobhouse.org.uk @johnmilnehorsham.bsky.social Pls read @kevinclimate.bsky.social superb article alongside mine graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-ccs-es... They are complementary. Kevin has really nailed big picture on this. Mine shows how the carbon accounting does not start to add up.
The CCS Escape Hatch for North Sea Drilling
Supporters of CCS technology say we can mitigate the climate impact of drilling in the North Sea. The science says otherwise.
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Kevin Anderson@kevinclimate.bsky.social · 4w agoEmit today & fix it tomorrow. Proposal by Loo/Allen/etc for new N.Sea oil & gas developments to be conditional on fossil-fuel execs promising to neutralise emissions thro' future CCS & “engineered removals”. static1.squarespace.com/static/6356a... My response: climateuncensored.com/response-to-...
Data centres are springing up everywhere, using massive amounts of energy and water. I’ve signed @friends-earth.bsky.social’s petition calling for a pause on new data centres until the government gets a grip on the situation. Will you join me? foe.uk/bl2np
Stop data centres draining our precious resources
Add my name Data centres are springing up all over the UK – using massive amounts of electricity and, in many cases, huge amounts of water. The UK is already facing water shortages, high energy demand...
foe.uk
Enough is enough. Devastating wildfires are threatening our communities, our wildlife, and our landscapes 🌳 We need the UK Gov to back our amazing fire fighters and invest in a real national wildfire prevention plan. Join me and sign the petition here: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/te...
Protect nature for the future: make wildfire prevention a national priority
Enough is enough. Devastating wildfires are threatening our communities, our wildlife, and our landscapes 🌳 We need the UK Gov to back our amazing fire fighters and invest in a real national wildfire ...
you.38degrees.org.uk
🧵 👇 on this great clip "UK is only 1% of emission so let's not bother with climate action". No, think of CO2 as litter or poo, and it does not make sense. 🚨 Filing next month the #CarbonReckoning legal case - we must take fair share in clearing up 👉 www.crowdjustice.com/case/carbon-... 🧵👇👇
#CarbonReckoning (Andrew Boswell)@drandrewboswell.bsky.social · last mo.1/. The 1% poo argument is a great way to illustrate how the 1% argument applied to UK carbon emissions is so deeply flawed and irresponsible
Hell yes 💪💯 For years, we heard that Proportional Representation was a fringe demand. That Westminster would never back it. That it wouldn't happen. Now, in the words of John Rentoul, it's "more likely to happen than not". Let's keep up the pressure! We can win and transform politics for good ✊
Andy Burnham wants to change the voting system – and it could well happen
A change to a proportional system is very possible after the next election – there ought to be a debate about which system it should be, writes John Rentoul
independent.co.uk
The problem for the CCS lobby who want to licence Rosebank by "paying for CCS" is that their scheme can never pay for all the emissions. There is huge carbon leakage from the CTBO scheme - ie "it doesn't add up"👇 See: bsky.app/profile/dran... @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @tessakhan.bsky.social
The Guardian@theguardian.com · last mo.Can Burnham justify giving the go ahead to oil drilling? Yes, but these must be the conditions | Michael Jacobs
Watching Big Chicken: A Fast Food Conspiracy, I was shocked to see the damage the chicken industry is doing to rivers, communities and animals. And now I’ve learned the Government wants to expand Big Chicken. I've signed the petition to stop it 👉 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Stop Big Chicken Choking our Rivers
Watching Big Chicken: A Fast Food Conspiracy, I was shocked to see the damage the chicken industry is doing to rivers, communities and animals. And now I’ve learned the Government wants to expand Big ...
you.38degrees.org.uk
Landmark judgment in South Africa permanently halts Shell’s Wild Coast oil and gas exploration www.greenpeace.org/africa/en/pr...
Landmark judgment in South Africa permanently halts Shell’s Wild Coast oil and gas exploration - Greenpeace Africa
South Africa’s Constitutional Court has delivered a decisive victory for Wild Coast communities, ocean justice and environmental rights, by setting aside the exploration right that would have allowed ...
greenpeace.org
🚨 A reminder as South Africa courts decide whether or not to allow Shell destroy its coastline with harmful seismic blasting #ToHellWithShell
BREAKING: Greenpeace activists have CONFRONTED a piece of Shell drilling equipment that is getting ready to extract oil in UK waters - even though Shell DON’T HAVE LEGAL PERMISSION to drill Why is Shell IGNORING high court rulings that FORBID them from extracting oil at Rosebank?
Watermelons in Bristol: how UK heatwaves are affecting growers
Watermelons in Bristol: how UK heatwaves are affecting growers
Most allotment holders say the heat has meant more work for smaller crops, although some have found a silver lining
theguardian.com
Bluefin tuna were almost fished to extinction, now they're back Let's celebrate this conservation success story by... catching them?
‘Success story’ hailed as bluefin tunas caught off Yorkshire for first time since 1960s
Researchers laud return of giant tuna to North Sea after being fished almost to point of extinction
theguardian.com
These two white grunts kept the beef going through two long rounds of mouthing off this morning! 😤😤 #whitegrunt #mouthoff #mouthfight #beefonthrreef #coralcitycamera
I wish the media wouldn't cover SpaceX as if it were an exciting frontier-pushing scientific endeavour when it's really the vanity project of a megalomaniac Bond villain type www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
'Incredible': SpaceX rocket spotted off Christmas Island coast
A SpaceX rocket that blasted off from Texas in July and crashed into the Indian Ocean hadn't been seen since - but now Christmas Island residents say they have spotted it being towed just off their co...
bbc.co.uk
Random reminder that the GOP's tax cuts for their billionaire donors ballooned the deficit, so they're blaming the problem on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid — while making cuts to programs that millions of Americans rely on. It's socialism for the rich, harsh capitalism for everyone else.
Ossoff: It’s been amazing to watch this White House melt down over this all week. And about Natalie Harp, these White House staffers are adults, public officials paid by the taxpayer, with immense power in positions of public trust.
